Rowan Tree and Red Thread

Lifted from mikegentry, a simple meme for booklovers (and bookhaters).

What is the best book you have ever read?

What is the worst book you have ever read?

I'm certain my answers will change with the weather and the passing of time, but I'll say now that the best book I've ever read is A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin. The language and the subject matter mesh perfectly. I came to it at an impressionable age and was marked by it, and it's one of the few books I'll re-read again and again.

I find it harder to choose my worst book. In recent memory I'd have to say Golden Witchbreed by Mary Gentle. I simply could not finish it, and deeply regret the time I wasted on reading as far as I did. It's a very dull and unsatisfying book, and lacking in any sense of wonder that the reviews and opinions I trusted to recommend it to me said it might have.

How about you?